8/2/2023 0 Comments Blender 3.0 featuresStable Long Term Support editions every year, starting with Blender 2.83 No specific development goals have yet been announced for either the Blender 3.x or 4.x release cycles. Roosendaal then proposes a regular series of 3.x updates, with another major update, Blender 4.0, in August 2023, kicking off the next two-year cycle. That would finally end the Blender 2.x release series, which has now run for 20 years, and which began while Blender was still a commercial product. The biggest proposed change happens in August 2021 with the release of Blender 3.0. The work, currently in progress, would give Blender users a fully procedural node-based workflow similar to that of tools like Houdini for many tasks, particularly for authoring particle systems.īlender 3.0 in August 2021, and a switch to two-year release cycles The 2.9x release cycle – Blender 2.90 to 2.93 – will then run until May 2021, and should implement the ‘ Everything Nodes‘ project, at least in part. That means a stable release of Blender 2.83 – currently in alpha – in May 2020.Ī work-in-progress feature list for Blender 2.83 is already available online: the highlights include a new physics-enabled cloth sculpting brush and OptiX viewport denoising. The least unexpected – and most fully fleshed-out – part of the roadmap is the next 18 months: Roosendaal proposes wrapping up the current 2.8x release cycle, then moving to Blender 2.90 in August. The proposed roadmap was posted by Blender Foundation chairman Ton Roosendaal on the Blender Developers Blog, and announced in the livestream embedded above.īlender 2.83 in May, then a year of 2.9x releases The schedule proposes major numbered updates every two years, with Blender 3.0 due in 2021 and Blender 4.0 in 2023, and a stable Long Term Support (LTS) edition every year. Blender Foundation has unveiled its roadmap for Blender over the next five years – if not the features due to be added in each version of the open-source 3D software, at least the release schedule itself.
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